The following bibliography is in no way inclusive. Although many of the books overlap in subject matter, an effort has been made to organize them under three categories: General; Studies in Specialized Areas; and Minorities in America.
GENERAL
BEARD, ANNIE E. S. Our Foreign-Born Citizens. New York: Crowell, 1955. Short biographies of well-known Americans of foreign birth.
BERNARD, WILLIAM S., et al., eds. American Immigration Policy. New York: Harper, 1950. Describes the origins and effects of the quota system.
BOWERS, DAVID F., ed. Foreign Influences in American Life. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1944. Exploratory essays on the development of the immigrant.
BROWN, FRANCIS J., and ROUCEK, JOSEPH S. One America. New York: Prentice-Hall, 1952. The history, contributions and present problems of religious, ethnic and racial groups in America.
BRUCE, CAMPBELL J. The Golden Door. New York: Random House, 1954. Case studies of the present effects of immigration and deportation policies.
COLE, STEWART G., and COLE, MILDRED WIESE. Minorities and the American Promise. New York: Harper, 1954. Discusses the relations of 180 million Americans of many racial, religious and national stocks.
COMMAGER, HENRY STEELE, ed. Immigration and American History. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1961. Essays discussing a number of aspects of American immigration.
CORSI, EDWARD. In the Shadow of Liberty. New York: Macmillan, 1935. The story of Ellis Island told by the first United States Commissioner of Immigration.
DIVINE, ROBERT A. American Immigration Policy, 1924-1952. New Haven: Yale, 1957. A comprehensive treatment of immigration policy.
EATON, ALLEN H. Immigrant Gifts to American Life. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 1932. Contributions of our foreign-born citizens to American cultural development.
GAUSTAD, EDWIN SCOTT. Historical Atlas of Religion in America. New York: Harper, 1962. A compilation of maps, charts and other data descriptive of the growth of major religious groups in America.
GLAZER, NATHAN, and MOYNIHAN, DANIEL. Beyond the Melting Pot. Cambridge: M.I.T., 1963. Negroes, Puerto Ricans, Jews, Italians and Irish of New York City.
GUILLET, EDWIN C. The Great Migration: The Atlantic Crossing by Sailing Ship Since 1770. New York: Nelson, 1937. Dramatic description of conditions in port cities at both ends of the immigrant journey and aboard ship.
HANDLIN, OSCAR. The Americans. Boston: Little, Brown, 1963. Discusses the gradual unfolding of the American character.
______(ed.). Immigration as a Factor in American History. New York: Spectrum Books, Prentice-Hall, 1959.
______(ed.). This Was America. Cambridge: Harvard, 1949 (Harper Torchbooks). True accounts as recorded by European travelers in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
______. The Uprooted. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1951 (Universal Library). The story of the great migrations that made the American people.
HANSEN, MARCUS LEE. The Atlantic Migration, 1607-1860. Cambridge: Harvard, 1940 (Harper Torchbooks). The origins and transfer of immigrants from Europe to the United States.
______. The Immigrant in American History. Cambridge: Harvard, 1940 (Harper Torchbooks). Interpretive essays on the immigration contribution.
HIGHAM, JOHN. Strangers in the Land. New Brunswick: Rutgers, 1955 (Atheneum Paperbacks). Patterns of American nativism, 1860-1925.
HUTCHINSON, E. P. Immigrants and Their Children, 1850-1950. New York: Wiley, 1956. A statistical study of adjustments of various immigrant groups and their descendants.
JAWORSKI, IRENE D. Becoming American. New York: Harper, 1960. Describes the various problems the immigrant encounters in adjusting to American life.
JONES, MALDWYN ALLEN. American Immigration. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960. Traces the impact of immigrants on American culture, politics, and economic growth.
MAISEL, ALBERT Q. They All Chose America. New York: Nelson, 1957. A popular account of the various nationalities who came to America.
POTTER, GEORGE. To the Golden Door. Boston: Little, Brown, 1960. Story of the Irish in Ireland and America.
SCHERMERHORN, R. A. These Our People: Minorities in American Culture. New York: Heath, 1949. One-chapter treatments of five immigrant groups: Italians, Poles, Czechs and Slovaks, Hungarians and Yugoslavians.
SCHLESINGER, ARTHUR M. Paths to the Present. New York: Macmillan, 1949 (Sentry Editions, Houghton Mifflin). Discusses various phases of immigration, including the role of the immigrant in shaping American ideals.
SENIOR, CLARENCE. Strangers Then Neighbors: From Pilgrims to Puerto Ricans. New York: Anti-Defamation League, 1961. Examines the pattern and history of immigration to the U.S., with emphasis on the significance of recent Puerto Rican migration.
SMITH, WILLIAM CARLSON. Americans in the Making: The Natural History of the Assimilation of Immigrants. New York: Appleton-Century, 1939. Describes the process of individual adjustment through which the immigrant typically passed.
STEPHENSON, GEORGE M. A History of American Immigration-1820-1924. Boston: Ginn, 1926. A discussion of immigration as a factor in American political development.
TAFT and ROBBINS. International Migrations, The Immigrant in the Modern World. New York: Ronald Press, 1955. Discusses migration as one of the many threads interwoven in a changing pattern of social relations among men.
WITTKE, CARL. We Who Built America: The Saga of the Immigrant. Cleveland: Western Reserve University Press, 1939. Storehouse of information on various aspects of immigration.
WOODHAM-SMITH, CECIL. The Great Hunger. New York: Harper, 1963 (Signet Books). The conditions in Ireland that led to mass immigration to the United States.
STUDIES IN SPECIALIZED AREAS
ABBOTT, EDITH, ed. Historical Aspects of the Immigration Problem. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1926. Select documents relating to immigration.
BILLINGTON, RAY ALLEN. The Protestant Crusade, 1800–1860: A Study of the Origins of American Nativism. New York: Macmillan, 1938 (Quadrangle Books). A study of anti-Catholic propaganda in the nineteenth century.
BLEGEN, THEODORE C., ed. Land of Their Choice: The Immigrants Write Home. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1955. Collection of letters of immigrants describing their life in this country.
BOORSTIN, DANIEL J. The Americans: The Colonial Experience. New York: Random House, 1958. Impact of the American environment upon the various groups of colonists.
CHILDS, FRANCES S. French Refugee Life in the United States, 1790-1800. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1940. Describes an American chapter of the French Revolution.
CRAVEN, WESLEY F. The Legend of the Founding Fathers. New York: New York University Press, 1956. Origins of the Puritan migrations,
ERICKSON, CHARLOTTE. American Industry and the European Immigrant, 1860-1885. Cambridge: Harvard, 1957. A study of the immigrant’s effects on American industrialization.
ERNST, ROBERT. Immigrant Life in New York City, 1825-1863. New York: King’s Crown Press, 1949. The intermingling of various groups during the mid-nineteenth century.
GATES, PAUL W. The Illinois Central Railroad and Its Colonization Work. Cambridge: Harvard, 1934. The activities of the railroads in colonization.
HANDLIN, OSCAR. Danger in Discord. New York: Anti-Defamation League, 1948. Origins of anti-Semitism in the United States.
______. Boston’s Immigrants, 1790-1865; A Study in Acculturation. Cambridge: Harvard, 1941. Describes the “Yankee” hostility to immigration in Boston.
JANSON, FLORENCE EDITH. The Background of Swedish Immigration, 1840-1930. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1931. The impulses which sent the Swedes to the United States.
KORN, BERTRAM WALLACE. American Jewry and the Civil War. New York: Meridian Paperbacks, 1951. Includes a study of the outbreak of anti-Semitism during this period.
KRAUS, MICHAEL. The Atlantic Civilization: Eighteenth-century Origins. New York: Van Nostrand, Anvil Books, 1949. A study of cultural exchange among the various Atlantic countries.
MARCUS, JACOB R. Early American Jewry. Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 1951. An account of the Jews in the colonial period in New York, New England and Canada.
MULDER, WILLIAM. Homeward to Zion. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1957. The Norman migration from Scandinavia.
MURRAY, ROBERT K. Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria, 1919-1920. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1955 (McGraw-Hill Paperback Series). Evaluation of the Palmer raids and other manifestations of this period.
NEVINS, ALLAN, and HILL, FRANK E. Ford: Expansion and Challenge (2nd volume of a 3-volume work). New York: Scribner, 1957. Covers Ford’s venture into anti-Semitism.
PHILLIPS, ULRICH BONNELL. American Negro Slavery. Gloucester: Peter Smith, 1959. A discussion of aspects of the slave trade.
RISCHIN, MOSES. The Promised City. Cambridge: Harvard, 1962. Jewish community life in New York City, 1870-1914.
SALOUTOS, THEODORE. They Remember America. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1956. The story of repatriated Greek-Americans.
SANDMEYER, ELMER C. The Anti-Chinese Movement in California. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1939. Traces the growth of nativism in California.
SCHRIER, ARNOLD. Ireland and American Emigration, 1850-1900. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1958. American influences which filtered back to Ireland.
SMITH, ABBOTT E. Colonists in Bondage: White Servitude and Convict Labor in America, 1607-1776. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1947. A treatment of the problem of indentured servants who came to America.
SMITH, JAMES MORTON. Freedom’s Fetters. Ithaca: Cornell, 1956. The Alien and Sedition Acts and American civil liberties.
SOLOMON, BARBARA. Ancestors and Immigrants. Cambridge: Harvard, 1956. A study of New England nativism.
TUPPER and MCREYNOLDS. Japan in American Public Opinion. New York: George H. Blakeslee, 1937. Traces American antipathies to Japanese migration.
WITTKE, CARL F. The German-Language Press in America. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1957. The influence of German newspapers on American life.
______. Refugees of Revolution: The German Forty-Eighters in America. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1952. A study of the people who fled Germany at the time of the revolutions of 1848.
MINORITIES IN AMERICA
BENSON and HADIN. Americans from Sweden. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1950.
BERTHOFF, ROWLAND T. British Immigrants in Industrial America, 1790-1950. Cambridge: Harvard, 1953.
BLEGEN, THEODORE C. Norwegian Migration to America, 1825-1860. Northfield, Minn.: Norwegian-American History Association, 1940.
BURMA, JOHN H. Spanish-Speaking Groups in the United States. Durham: Duke, 1954.
CONWAY, ALAN, ed. The Welsh in America; Letters from Immigrants. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1961.
DAVIS, JEROME D. The Russian Immigrant. New York: Macmillan, 1922.
FAUST, ALBERT B. The German Element in the United States. 2 vols. New York: Houghton, 1909.
FOERSTER, ROBERT F. The Italian Emigration of Our Time. Cambridge: Harvard, 1919.
FOSDICK, LUCIAN J. The French Blood in America, Boston: Gorham Press, 1919.
GINZBERG, ELI, and Eichner, Alfred S. The Troublesome Presence: American Democracy and the Negro. New York: Free Press, 1964.
GOVORCHIN, G. G. Americans from Yugoslavia. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1961.
GRAHAM, IAN. Colonists from Scotland. Ithaca: Cornell, 1956.
HANDLIN, OSCAR, Adventure in Freedom. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1954. Discusses three hundred years of Jewish life in America.
HANSEN, MARCUS LEE. The Mingling of the Canadian and American Peoples. New Haven: Yale, 1940.
HAWGOOD, JOHN A. The Tragedy of German-America; The Germans in the United States of America during the Nineteenth Century–and After. Toronto: T. Allen, 1940.
HITTI, PHILIP K. The Syrians in America. New York: George H. Doran, 1924.
HOGLUND, WILLIAM A. Finnish Immigrants in America. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1960.
ICHIHASHI, YAMATO. Japanese in the United States. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1932.
Learsi, Rufus. Jews in America, A History. Cleveland: World, 1954.
LEE, ROSE HUM. The Chinese in the United States of America. London: Oxford, 1960.
LENGYEL, EMIL. Americans from Hungary. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1948.
LEYBURN, JAMES, The Scotch-Irish: A Social History. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1962.
LUCAS, HENRY S. Netherlanders in America. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1955.
MALCOLM, M. VARTON. The Armenians in America. Boston: Pilgrim Press, 1912.
MCWILLIAMS, CAREY. North from Mexico. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1961.
MILLS, SENIOR, KOHN and GOLDSEN. The Puerto Rican Journey. New York: Harper, 1950.
REID, IRA DE AUGUSTINE. The Negro Immigrant, His Background, Characteristics, and Social Adjustment. New York: Columbia, 1939.
SALOUTOS, THEODORE. The Greeks in the U.S. Cambridge: Harvard, 1963.
SHANNON, WILLIAM V. The American Irish. New York: Macmillan, 1963.
SMITH, BRADFORD. Americans from Japan. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1948.
WITTKE, CARL F. The Irish in America. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State, 1956.
WYTRWAL, JOSEPH A. America’s Polish Heritage. Detroit: Endurance Press, 1961.